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‘I haven’t had a birthday since I was ten years old. That makes me sound like I’m immortal or a vampire, but it’s really not like that.’

Kat is about to turn sixteen on the anniversary of her sister Grace’s disappearance 5 years ago and her anxious parents are on overdrive. Everything in Kat’s life since Grace failed to come home has been the result of loss; her life is defined by her sister’s absence. When Kat goes out running with her dog her Mum insists that both she and the dog wear a GPS tracker at all times. A message glimpsed on social media leads Kat to uncover the dark history of the local area but will she find out what really happened to her sister that terrible night 5 years ago?

A Short Work inspired by the history of the Mendip Hills.

Sanjida Kay has had four psychological thrillers published by Corvus Books: Bone by Bone, The Stolen Child, My Mother’s Secret and One Year Later. Bone by Bone went straight into the Amazon kindle best-selling list. It was long listed for the CWA Steel Dagger Award and nominated as one of the best crime and thriller books of 2016 by the Guardian and the Sunday Express. Her books have been optioned for TV, and published in other countries. She’s had two short stories published in collections: The Beautiful Game, in The Perfect Crime, published by Harper Collins, which was shortlisted for a CWA Short Story Dagger; and The Divide in The Book of Bristol (Comma Press), which won the CWA Short Story Dagger.

Under her own name of Sanjida O’Connell, she’s had four novels and four non-fiction books published. She’s also contributed to two encyclopaedias, had poetry and short stories published in anthologies and edited two collections of work by students for the charity, First Story. Sanjida has been shortlisted for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Asia Awards, the Betty Trask Award for Romantic Fiction, the Daily Telegraph Science Writer's Award, Asian Woman of the Year, and was highly commended for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wildlife Magazine's Award for Nature Writing.

https://www.sanjida.co.uk/

Written by Sanjida Kay
Read by Halema Hussain
Produced by Alison Crawford